Fiesole
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Fiesole is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany, on a scenic height above Florence, 5 km northeast of that city. It has structures dating to Etruscan and Roman times.
Aerial view of Piazza Mino, the main square of Fiesole
Excavation of the late-fourth-century BC Etruscan temple in Fiesole that later was used by the Romans
Partial restoration of one of the Roman structures in Fiesole
A fourteenth-century depiction from the Nuova Cronica showing the sacking of Fiesole in 1010, Chig.L.VIII.296 49v
Catiline
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Lucius Sergius Catilina, known in English as Catiline, was a Roman politician and soldier, best known for instigating the Catilinarian conspiracy, a failed attempt to violently seize control of the Roman state in 63 BC.
1st century AD depiction of Cicero, consul in 63 BC with Antonius, today in the Capitoline Museum
Bowls containing food distributed in electoral canvasses. The bowl to the right was commissioned by Lucius Cassius Longinus and distributed, filled with food, in support of Catiline's consular candidacy in 63 BC. The bowl on the left was distributed by Marcus Porcius Cato in a coeval campaign for the plebeian tribunate. Giving food to voters was common as a means to build up goodwill.
Alcide Segoni's Discovery of the Body of Catiline (1871). In the Gallery of Modern Art, Florence.